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I got a deal at Sam's 🙂 that and flank steak

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Sunday night I made skirt steak fajitas for some friends. I found the recipe on serious eats and although Kenzie Lopez-Alt used a charcoal grill, I used my gas grill and it was perfect. I did do the peppers and onions in the oven as I had extras and then I made guacamole to go with. I also made a rose sangria based on a Jeffrey Morgenthaler recipe from Fine Cooking. I used very little simple syrup and a nice dry rose and it was delicious - definitely not sweet, just nicely fruity.

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I googled Chocolate Kailua Walnut Tart and there were several sites that had a recipe. So I looked at the first recipe that wasn't food.com and it listed 2 tablespoons heavy cream in the filling ingredients list. Hope this helps!

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Hi Mike, my favorite sloppy Joe recipe is Asian sloppy joes from Ming Tsai, but he uses 2 1\2 tablespoons of garlic.

However, I googled "sloppy joes without garlic" and a number came up - one used ½ teaspoon each of garlic and onion powders, but you could probably use a teaspoon of onion powder.

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I mostly use ounces because visually it makes more sense. Sometimes I will use grams but I don't have a "feel" for the measurements yet. I know this doesn't sound very clear, but I know what a cup of flour (4.25 ounces per KAF) looks like, but I don't know what gram measurements look like. I know that may sound silly and I also know that weighing by grams can be a little more accurate,but weighing ounces is what I'm comfortable with.

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I baked a big batch of KAF fudge brownies with ganache to celebrate our changing restaurant venues at work. It made so much tab I also took some to the Lighthouse and to Will's job.

My one problem was they said to bake for 40-45 minutes. I baked for 35 and they were ok. I couldn't figure out why they would tell you to bake a longer time when it was in a half sheet pan and the height of the batter was thinner. Next time I'll bake the regular amount of time. They were still good though

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This past week I made a batch of buffalo chicken in the crockpot and I used the temperature probe - the chicken was perfect and it took 2-2½ hours instead of 3-4 so definitely cooks higher. I also made the Tex-mex Cobb salad, only we toss all the ingredients together and last night I grilled chicken breasts which came out great. Score two for the grill. I used a quick rub from the Weber grill book. It had garlic & onion powders, s&up and chili powder- I used Penzey's medium hot and it had good flavor.

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Instead of eating doughnuts, several of my co-workers and I reminisced about companies who used to make really good ones but no longer do - Krispie Kreme and Dunkin to name two. One person brought up about a local guy who made really good ones eons ago.

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I heard from Jozy and she had emailed Mike to get help and for some reason his email didn't work for her, so I wrote Mike and copied her. She's read the posts and hopefully will be logging in soon with Mike's help.

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I sent Jozy the link to this post in hopes that she might join the conversation

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I finally cooked burgers on my new grill. We'd all forgotten what a difference it makes. I made coleslaw to go with it along with frozen sweet potato fries.

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This may be a crazy idea, but have you thought of looking at IKEA for ideas of smaller kitchens/appliances? I'm just thinking in terms of research and that you might find brands that you haven't heard of before

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The good news is that most of the bacon grease gets soaked up by the bread - there's just enough to wilt the lettuce not enough to drown it.

Michael and I had differences in food likes as well - sometimes I wonder how I ever got to eat what I liked ?

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I laughed when I read your comments, Mike. I am working on arugula - baby is fine but I often mix it with other lettuces. In this case I didn't have enough arugula so I threw in some chopped up romaine. You could probably use spinach as the warm bacon fat wilts the lettuce. I'm a big fan of avocados, but you could certainly thin mayo to use as your dressing. After all, mayo is a necessity in BLTs!?

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On Thursday I made a sheet pan BLT salad from myrecipes.com - We really liked it but think a little less bread and a little more bacon next time. Tonight I made sheet pan Fajitas. I love having meals that take so little time

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